Teetering Trump Thrown a Lifeline by Senate Dems

Senate Democrats threw a teetering Trump administration a lifeline by folding on the U.S. authorities shutdown.

The transfer has divided the nationwide Democratic social gathering and brought the highlight off a teetering Trump administration’s troubles.

Eight Senators deserted the Democratic caucus to affix Republicans voting to reopen the federal government “in change for a few months of presidency funding and a vote on healthcare that they’re certain to lose.”

Schumer in Hassle With the Base

Approaching the heels of huge electoral wins for Democrats in final week’s elections, this has infuriated the social gathering’s grassroots base and even motivated a couple of Home Democrats to name for Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer to resign.

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— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) November 12, 2025

Notable exceptions embody Home Minority Chief “AIPAC Shakur” Hakeem Jefferies and erstwhile progressive Bernie Sanders.

Regardless of not being one of many 8 Senators who voted with the Republicans to finish the shutdown, Schumer is being blasted over the deal.

Rotating Villain Gambit No Longer Working

That’s as a result of an increasing number of Individuals are hip to what Glenn Greenwald labeled the “rotating villain” rip-off whereby a conservative senate Democrat publicly opposes the social gathering’s key goals.

This position has been performed in earlier periods by Joe Lieberman, Joe Manchin, and Kyrsten Sinema, however has now been enthusiastically taken up by progressive apostate John Fetterman.

Fetterman (PA) was joined by fellow Dems Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Dick Durbin (IL), Tim Kaine (VA), Maggie Hassan (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), and unbiased Angus King (ME).

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— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) November 12, 2025

Dems Can’t Preserve Kayfabe

Regardless of MSNBC MS NOW speaking heads like Symone Sanders enjoying silly as onerous as they will, there’s simply no sheltering Schumer.

One of many 8, Tim Kaine, broke kayfabe telling a CNBC reporter, “I can inform you this, there have been much more than 8 that had been actually completely happy that the 8 of us voted them the best way we did. However I’m not going to place phrases in anyone’s mouth.”

Shaheen additionally spilled the beans, saying, “we saved management knowledgeable all through.

Extra damning for Schumer, Robert Kuttner reported:

It has been broadly assumed that the group of eight largely centrist Senate Democrats, who’ve been seeking to dealer a hole deal on Republican phrases, had been freelancing. Actually, they had been appearing with the categorical approval of Senate Democratic Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and had been reporting to him every day.

At Thursday’s assembly, they advised their caucus colleagues that they now had ten votes to reopen the federal government in change for no actual Republican concessions. At that, a lot of the remainder of the caucus went ballistic, and a number of the supposed ten stated that, in actual fact, they weren’t keen to vote for any such deal.

The leaders of the proposed Democratic cave-in, Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, each of New Hampshire, and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, then backed down. Solely after that did Schumer go public along with his proposal to reopen the federal government in change for a one-year extension of the ACA subsidies, together with a bipartisan fee to determine a long-term resolution.…The thriller is why Schumer retains flirting with capitulation in change for nothing. Democrats have the political momentum, Republicans are divided, and a majority of voters blame Republicans for the shutdown.

Jeet Heer ripped Schumer in The Nation:

Although he negotiated the deal, he himself stated on Sunday that he gained’t vote for it. He clearly prefers to let different Democrats take the autumn.

Heer additionally cites historian Aaron Astor who tweeted,

For Dems, this one will wreck Schumer. However it can increase salience of well being care affordability for subsequent November if no ACA subsidy passes. After final Tuesday, Dems know that affordability is THE massive difficulty that can assist in 2026, simply because it crushed Dems in 2024. GOP has by no means put forth an actual different to the ACA so with out subsidies, they’ll personal main premium will increase, whether or not they prefer it or not. However Schumer has achieved a horrible job messaging any of this and he’s completely loathed by the Dem base now.

Schumer might have torched his personal political profession, however as I realized in 2006 after I had an inside view of the Democratic social gathering’s response to Joe Lieberman dropping his 2006 main, there are extra essential issues to a contemporary politician than his or her electoral prospects.

Cash and energy matter to those individuals. Serving their constituents will not be all that top on the record.

As All the time, Observe the Cash

Regardless of the Each day Present’s Jon Stewart enjoying alongside and blaming Dem “incompetence,” historian Nate Holdren was extra correct when he wrote, “it’s nearer to a boxer taking a dive as a result of for behind-the-scenes causes there’s extra money in dropping the match.”

David Sirota’s The Lever notes that restaurant and meals trade lobbyists received language inserted into the emergency spending invoice that “eliminates guidelines designed to stop meals contamination and foodborne sicknesses at farms and eating places” and that three of the Dem line-crossers (Kaine, Rosen, and Durbin) acquired a mixed $17,000 from that foyer.

The Lever additionally reported that the airways, who’ve been brutalized by the shutdown, have given $842,500 to seven of the caucus-defying Dems since 2019 and:

$218,000 — representing a large 10 % of the trade’s election cycle PAC spending — has gone to Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) since 2019. Rosen has counted airways as one in every of her high trade donors final election cycle… proper behind well being care and insurance coverage.

However Schumer might have been combating to guard a fair larger prize: the Senate filibuster which raises the variety of Senators wanted to cross a invoice from a easy majority to an excellent majority of 60.

Did Schumer Save the Sacred Filibuster?

One other historian, Keith Orejel angrily tweeted, “Let’s be frank. The Democrats offered us all out on healthcare to guard the filibuster as a result of after they get again into energy they don’t need to really be anticipated to implement critical change.”

No matter his motives, Schumer is extraordinarily susceptible and certain in his final time period, which has three years left. His New York Senate seat seems to be Congressional Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ for the taking.

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— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) November 12, 2025

Schumer’s noble sacrifice might go down within the annals of centrist legend as a result of the filibuster was undoubtedly in bother, with a teetering Trump pushing onerous to finish it, per Punchbowl Information:

NEWS — INSIDE THE ROOM per a number of GOP senators…

After reporters had been kicked out, Trump stated the election outcomes confirmed that the shutdown has been “worse for us than for them” & that R’s “are getting killed.”

Trump stated the GOP will grow to be a “lifeless social gathering” in the event that they don’t nuke the filibuster.

Trump received into it with Lindsey Graham after Graham tried to make the purpose that they will nonetheless use reconciliation to cross laws with a easy majority

Trump snapped at Graham: “Lindsey, you and I each know that there’s a lot you’ll be able to’t do with reconciliation…”

Teetering Trump Group Celebrates

For his or her half the teetering Trump administration is thrilled with the end result, telling Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo:

The Trump White Home, for its half, is cackling – generally actually – in regards to the flip of occasions. Two White Home officers, and two different Trump advisers, might barely include their giddiness when requested by Zeteo in regards to the newest occasion of the Democratic elite capitulating to Trump. A number of Trump aides and allies saved gratuitously utilizing phrases corresponding to “losers” and “pussies” as they reveled within the reduction from a shutdown that even President Trump acknowledged was getting Republicans “killed” politically.

Teetering Trump Actually Is Teetering

And should you’re uninterested in me writing “teetering Trump” with out backing it up, let’s have a look at some polling on the shutdown and up to date election outcomes:

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— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) November 12, 2025

The failure to resume Obamacare subsidies additionally disproportionately impacts Trump voters:

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— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) November 12, 2025

Trump’s help is cratering with the youthful voters who put him excessive in 2024:

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— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) November 12, 2025

Schumer’s capitulation is just about the one excellent news Trump has had prior to now week.

Earlier than we dive into the survey of Trump’s many woes, simply examine this reporting on the “course of” behind his pathetic 50 12 months mortgage thought:

“On Saturday night, Pulte arrived at President Donald Trump’s Palm Seaside Golf Membership with a roughly 3-by-5 posterboard in hand,” Dasha and Sophia report. “A graphic of former President Franklin Roosevelt appeared under ‘30-year mortgage,’ and one in every of Trump under ‘50-year…

— Jonathan Martin (@jmart) November 11, 2025

This is similar Invoice Pulte that Bessant threatened to punch within the face in September.

Examine these headlines:

The video from the Duran is of particular curiosity as each they and their visitor Robert Barnes are MAGA-sympathetic (at a minimal) they usually all agree that Trump has misplaced contact with is base, is in thrall to institution varieties like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and has utterly misplaced the plot on each home and international coverage.

Barnes additionally compares Trump’s refusal to launch the Epstein information early this summer time to Biden’s disastrous mishandling of (the lengthy overdue) American withdrawal from Afghanistan: the pivot second when issues went incorrect for the administration.

Trump is doing a tremendous job of destroying his personal administration, however fairly than throwing him an anvil, Schumer and established order Senate Democrats have thrown teetering Trump a lifeline.

Those that want to overthrow Trump additionally should overthrow the Democratic centrists who allow him.